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Anonymous 01/22/15 (Thu) 06:35:29 No.6467

Anyone else hate their birthday?

Anonymous 01/22/15 (Thu) 06:52:41 No.6469

Yes. I used to remove it from Facebook the week before it happened, then put it up a week after.

Now I just leave it off. I also don't congratulate anyone unless I physically see them that day.

Anonymous 01/22/15 (Thu) 06:55:55 No.6471

>>6469
Lol. I do the exact same things.

Anonymous 01/22/15 (Thu) 07:16:58 No.6477

Birthdays aren't really a holiday. They're a celebration.
And if you have actual friends that celebrate your birthday with you it's fine, and they won't ignore you for the rest of the year. Just disable facebook birthdays and don't interact with fake people.
>>6475

Anonymous 01/22/15 (Thu) 07:18:46 No.6478

most of the time it's "hey i didn't know what to buy you, so here's some cash"
or it's booze (funnily enough, booze makes me sociable)
so it's okish, especially if i get a drink early on

Anonymous 01/23/15 (Fri) 01:02:04 No.6515

>>6467
>celebratory marker of your birth

I hate my birthday.

Anonymous 01/23/15 (Fri) 01:55:51 No.6520

I've never celebrated my birthday before. I never told anyone this because I don't want to seem like a weirdo. I hate them, but I don't really care for it, either. Seems alien to me.

Anonymous 01/23/15 (Fri) 01:57:22 No.6521

>>6520
*I don't hate

Anonymous 01/23/15 (Fri) 16:45:04 No.6550

I am a twin who was born the day after Christmas. Most birthdays are mediocre except for my recent 18th, which was amazing.

Anonymous 01/23/15 (Fri) 16:57:23 No.6551

I don't like them much either. Mainly because I'll be forced to waste time and energy socializing with people I don't care about.
Or sometimes with people I do care about, but that's still annoying.

Anonymous 01/25/15 (Sun) 23:02:04 No.6664

I get all worried that someone will ambush me with it because it's on the social network they force us to use at work and I can't take it off or delete my account. Just anxiety on that, I just don't like talking to people about my life. But I think >>6477 had it right, it's only shitty if you don't have any friends to make it a special day. It's a personal thing, you have to have provided some social value or it won't mean anything to anyone.

Anonymous 01/26/15 (Mon) 00:53:13 No.6665

I don't really like it. It's in december. Pretty much all the bad shit in my short life has somehow, managed to happen in the fucking december. I don't fucking know what the hell is it with that month. At this point I am outright paranoid when december comes and extremely relieved when it is over and I can say that I didn't die or any of the few relatives that I actually like hasn't died or been killed.

Anonymous 01/27/15 (Tue) 09:13:11 No.6709

Hate them, hate the attention which is weird since I'm a huge attention whore on the internet.
Also, the idea of aging sucks. I mean, "hey, wow, you're a year older and have only managed to make backwards progress with your life, good job, hooray."

Luckily it's on the first of the month, which is when I get neetbux, so when that happens I'm spending it all on getting drunk.

Anonymous 01/27/15 (Tue) 19:29:45 No.6723

Never really cared for it, not like anything happens anyway. Mine was yesterday, but the only thing that really happened was that my mom and a few other family members wished me a happy one, which is usually what happens.

Anonymous 01/29/15 (Thu) 11:02:18 No.6796

I hate my birthday because it only happens once a year. When my special day rolls around, I'm the happiest person on earth. I love getting all the well wishes and gifts. I go back to being just another nobody the day after.

That's probably why I tend to ignore my friend's and family's birthday's. Seeing them get all the attention and special treatment makes me unreasonably upset.

Retarded and childish, I know, but I can't help it.

Anonymous 02/04/15 (Wed) 06:20:50 No.7304

When I was 10, my dad let me alone at home during my birthday week-end and he went to another city for watching a soccer match.

Anonymous 02/04/15 (Wed) 18:56:02 No.7314

>tfw I turn 18 on the 26th
I am not ready for this shit.

Anonymous 02/04/15 (Wed) 23:09:10 No.7323

I dunno how to exactly put this, but I think I'm like… mentally 15 years old. Every birthday just feels wrong because I don't feel like I'm aging and sometimes when people ask how old I am, I instinctively answer "15" even though I'm in my 20s.

BUT I pass for 15 apparently appearance-wise, so fuck it.

Anonymous 02/05/15 (Thu) 00:48:41 No.7324

>>7323
I'm the same. I feel like a 12 year old, yet I'm turning 20 in a couple of months. Everyone says I've become mature but I can't see it. I feel like I'm in tthe wrong body.

Anonymous 02/05/15 (Thu) 00:53:57 No.7325

>>7324
People think I'm mature because I'm well-spoken but I was well-spoken when I was 15 as well. I'm still fully immature, dress like a 15 year old kid and like that age group.

Anonymous 02/05/15 (Thu) 13:08:35 No.7354

I don't precisely hate my birthday, But I really don't want to celebrate it. All the attention from my family just makes me feel bad, and it's not like you deserve any gifts for surviving a year on welfare.

Anonymous 02/05/15 (Thu) 13:42:47 No.7356

>>7354
This. I stopped caring about birthdays long ago and I cannot understand why anyone would celebrate it.

Anonymous 02/05/15 (Thu) 13:43:17 No.7357

I mean, I can understand when it's a child but not when you're an adult.

Anonymous 02/07/15 (Sat) 12:18:27 No.7430

>>7323
>>7324
You're trans-age. You should go to fuckbaby island and start blogs about how oppressed you are.

Anonymous 02/07/15 (Sat) 13:20:25 No.7434

>>7430
Actually it's a common thing for child abuse victims to mentally stop aging.

Anonymous 02/11/15 (Wed) 06:59:16 No.7534

>>7434
what about for people whove had traumatic events in their teens? Like, a crippling disease for example?

i think this might be relevant to myself as well though far less so. it's not nearly even on my radar and i dont want to add it to my "list" but im curious if this is a thing for other people because i know i have small elements of that

Anonymous 02/11/15 (Wed) 08:27:08 No.7541

>>7534
I think it is. I'm not sure. I'd look into it.

Anonymous 02/13/15 (Fri) 03:14:49 No.7607

It's my birthday today, and yes, I hate it.

Anonymous 02/13/15 (Fri) 13:08:50 No.7615

>>7607
How old are you?

Anonymous 02/14/15 (Sat) 00:25:04 No.7627

>>6467
Nope. I've decided that it's a holiday that's all about me.

I take a few days off work for it, I get people to knock stuff off my Amazon wishlist if they want to spend money on me, and so forth.

Age is just a number, and I really don't want to face up to being nearly 30, so I ignore the number and celebrate having survived another year.

Anonymous 02/14/15 (Sat) 02:21:46 No.7634

Anonymous 02/15/15 (Sun) 01:00:09 No.7662

>>7634
What happened to make you hate your birthday?

Anonymous 02/15/15 (Sun) 01:10:28 No.7665

>>7662
Years of social neglect. I feel like I have no friends.

Anonymous 02/15/15 (Sun) 01:55:15 No.7667

No; it's just like any other day but with an added chance to get something from friends. And if you don't, then it is just another day.

Anonymous 02/15/15 (Sun) 05:53:53 No.7681

I don't know why. It just started happening. I've shut it down everywhere I can, and I'm equally touched and annoyed as shit when some fuck who knows lets it slip.

I've stopped telling people when it is. If old friends forget and ask I'll give a vague answer or just give the wrong months and find ways to change topic.

It bothers me that it bothers me.

I think I'm afraid of getting older.
I think I'm afraid of people caring about me.

I think I'm afraid that each year is just going to fucking tick right back around and everything is going to be the same except maybe I'll be a little fatter or have a little less hair and that I'll be working the same fucking job and making the same fucking resolutions and promises to myself year after year that I'm going to publish a book or find a better job or…

(And sometimes I'm so certain this is true I want to die)

This is all the same fuckass 20s shit which seems to affect my age bracket. I hate that I'm so… predictable like that. I'm not unique. The passing of a year is the click of a cog turning, and eventually my teeth will round and I will become obsolete and I will die.

Anonymous 02/15/15 (Sun) 09:03:18 No.7687

>>7665
You've always got us.

Anonymous 02/15/15 (Sun) 09:13:21 No.7688

I don't care about my birthday anymore. It's been more than 10 years since I got a proper birthday party. Like 5 years since I got a gift, I'd say.
It used to bother me but now it's just the usual.

Anonymous 02/15/15 (Sun) 18:56:24 No.7696

Mine was Monday (the 9th), family didn't seem to care much.

Anonymous 02/28/15 (Sat) 23:19:03 No.8051

I haven't properly celebrated my birthday with my friends for five years now, I think. I've had some quiet, low-key celebrations with my family sometimes, but that's it.

I might do something this year, since I have more of a regular social life now than I used to, but I'm honestly not fussed about it. It's the same as any other day, really. I'm not entirely sure what I'd want to do, either.

Anonymous 03/01/15 (Sun) 03:31:30 No.8058

Turned 27 today. Really starting to feel it. Beginning to accept that I'll be alone for the rest of my life.

At least I didn't have to deal with any celebrations. Friends have no idea, dad is pissed at me for ignoring him for a year straight again, and mom's too sick to lift a finger let alone bake a cake.

Anonymous 03/01/15 (Sun) 16:28:41 No.8062

Never really celebrated my birthday, except maybe once in my childhood which sucked. I usually get 50 bucks from my mom and maybe a cheap game from steam friends, but I tend to feel bad about the latter.

All my birthday really does is remind me I haven't achieved anything in my life.

Anonymous 03/01/15 (Sun) 21:23:31 No.8063

new year's eve is way worse

Anonymous 03/05/15 (Thu) 20:52:40 No.8123

>>8058
Belated happy birthday anon that shares my birthday.

Kind of. I was born on the 29th.

Anonymous 03/07/15 (Sat) 06:27:05 No.8174

I think I stopped celebrating my birthday when I was 13 or so, but everyone else kept celebrating it til I was 19.
My dad was a drunk, so he and my mom fought a lot, then when he died my sister would come to dinner for my birthday, but she's a bitch and also fights with my mom.

I've just come to associate my birthday with yelling and helplessness.

Anonymous 03/08/15 (Sun) 00:46:08 No.8193

I just always have a shitty day on my birthday, no idea why, just something shitty happens.

Anonymous 10/21/15 (Wed) 22:10:15 No.12052

I actually still enjoy the attention from my family on my birthday, it's just the thought of getting old that I hate, and especially my transition into adulthood, that I primarily blame on the fact that I had a shit childhood.

I turned 18 this summer and have hated myself since.

I'm afraid that It's too late to find love.

I'm anxious about how i'm so unable to connect with all of these new people around me.

I'm scared that my old friends are going to move on and forget about me.

And worst of all, I feel like the longer I go on feeling shit about myself the less chance I have to break out of this lonely cycle of classes/work, spending hours of sitting at my PC, Sleep, rinse and repeat.

And my 19th will come around just as quickly as it has been doing for the past couple of years.

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